Eight scientific institutions in capital sign MoU for collaborative research

Eight premier nationwide institutions in Thiruvananthapuram have agreed to a proper collaboration to foster mutual cooperation by collaborative research programmes and change of college and college students

The scientific institutions which have agreed to associate in this collaboration embody, the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS), Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), CSIR – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and the Centre for Development of Advancing Computing (C-DAC).

The initiative is designed to strengthen interdisciplinary research, improve tutorial & research partnerships and tp promote innovation throughout scientific domains.

A proper announcement concerning the collaboration and the MoU being entered into by the partnering institutions was made right here on Wednesday at an occasion on the Bio Medical know-how wing of SCTIMST.

Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Kris Gopalakrishnan, president, SCTIMST and Sunil Kumar, Head, Autonomous Institutions Division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India joined the occasion nearly.

The heads of all partnering scientific institutions, E. Magesh, Director General, C-DAC; Chandrabhas Narayana, Director, RGCB; J. N. Moorthy, Director, IISER; N. V. Chalapathi Rao, Director, NCESS; G. Byju, Director, CTCRI; C. Anandharamakrishnan, Director, CSIR-NIIST; Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IIST; Sanjay Behari, Director, SCTIMST and Harikrishna Varma P. R, Head, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST have been current on the event, reaffirming a shared imaginative and prescient for collaborative research and tutorial excellence.

This formal collaboration marks a big milestone in constructing a strong scientific ecosystem, encouraging information sharing and contributing to the nation’s objectives in research and improvement, a press be aware issued right here stated.